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R&D Budget Analysis

America has always excelled at the technological cutting edge, but a new book argues it’s the older sectors – energy, agriculture, transportation, manufacturing – that need special attention. In Technological Innovation in Legacy Sectors , authors William B. Bonvillian and Charles Weiss identify...

The past few years have doubtlessly been tough ones for science agency budgets. Even with multiple adjustments by Congress, the spending caps under the Budget Control Act and the FY 2013 sequestration have meant billions in lost funding since FY 2012. But the prior two appropriations cycles have...

Note: All tables below are image files. Data are available in different formats on request. If you have any questions, contact us . For AAAS analysis of the omnibus, see here . AGENCY TABLES Overview by Agency and Character of Work Department of Defense DOD R&D by Military Departments and...

For complete R&D funding tables by agency, see here . See also: Following the Omnibus, Most Science Agencies Are At (Or Near) Pre-Sequestration Funding With the unveiling of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 yesterday, and the White House’s signal that the President would sign the bill...

AAAS CEO Rush Holt recently appeared on MSNBC and authored an op-ed in New Scientist, calling for more robust, sustained U.S. federal funding for science and technology. The recent U.S. bipartisan budget deal offered "some much-needed relief for federal science agencies," Holt wrote in his 11...

Nearly a month after avoiding a shutdown, Congressional leaders and the White House have produced the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 , a two-year deal to partially roll back the spending caps and increase discretionary spending in FY 2016 by 5.2 percent. The deal allows federal agencies to avoid a...

Federal agencies are the standard unit of appropriations, but there are of course several interagency initiatives intended to promote collaboration and coordination. Cutting across different spending bills, some of these activities get their own line items, but others – especially the bigger ones,...

Now that Congress has dodged a government shutdown , R&D appropriations bills may offer some indications for how agency budgets may fare in the next fiscal year, said Matt Hourihan, director of the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program . The latest AAAS analysis of the FY 2016 R&D...

Patients, scientists, and physicians knocked on their Washington representatives' doors for the 17 September Rally for Medical Research , which calls on lawmakers to invest in biomedical research and the National Institutes of Health, where growth has slipped for a decade. More than 300...